Incidence and distribution pattern of pelvic and paraaortic lymph node metastasis in patients with stages IB, IIA, and IIB cervical carcinoma treated with radical hysterectomy

Abstract

The results of this study suggest that the obturator lymph nodes can be sentinel lymph nodes of cervical carcinoma. PAN metastasis appears to occur secondarily to wide-spread PLN metastasis. These results provide a basis for determining the site of selective lymph node dissection and for estimating the existence of PAN metastasis from the pattern of metastasis in PLN in patients with cervical carcinoma.